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The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
Thin, Wiry Men the Brayest.

History no doubt gives color to the
idea that fat men are not, as a rule,
brave. Falstatf was a fat man; he was
a conspicuous coward. Major Monsoon
was likewise %corpulent; his gallantry
lay in the direction of chickens. There
have been brave fat men, of course
witness Pickwick, as courageous a gen
tleman as ever faced a widow. The
heroes of the world have undoubtedly
been wiry men, not necessarily scare
crows, but men without an unusual or
unwieldly proportion of adipose tissue.
Had the living skeleton, now being
sued by his recently made-bride been
a fat man. he would undoubtedly have
wilted, and permitted himself, per-
haps, to be cerried off in a clothes basket.
Being a skeleton, he is a man of valor,
and no bride of day shall tr.fe with his
emaciatcd affections. Anatomically
speaking the skeleton is all grit. He
proposes to fight it out to the bitter end,
if he has t9 1rawn his bones to'pay eoun-
sci fees.
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Bright Youth.

tsJames," said a schoolmaster to Il dull
pupil, after the morning chapter had been
read in the school, ''James, we have read
in the Bible this MON ng that Noah had
three sons-Shem. Ham and Japheth;
now, James, who was the father of Shem,
Ham and Japheth?'
"Sir?" said James inquiringly.
"Why, James," answered the master,
"You've seen that Noah had three sons,
and thpt their names were Shem. Ham,
Japheth. These were Noah,s sons.
Now, who was the father of Shem, Ham,
and Japheth?n
''Sir," said James, obviously ponder
ing the full of the query.
"Why James," said the preceptor,
'sdon't you know who the father of Shem,
Ham and Japheth was, after I've told
you so much?"
"No, sir,-I'd'n know
"You are very dull, James-very!
You know Mr.. Smith, don't you, that
lives the next house to yours?'
= "Sartain, Bill and 10 Smith and | play
together, Bib took my cross-gun, and
owes NE"
every well, Mr.. Smith has three boys,
William. Henry and Joseph. Who is
the father of William, Henry and Jo-
seph?"
"Mr. Smith" exclaimed james, in
stantly; Mr.. Smith; guess l know that"
Certainly, James; very well. Now
this is exactly the same thing. You see,
as we have been reading, that Noah had
three sons, like Mr.. Smith, but their
names were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Now, who was the father of Noah's three
sons?"
James hesitated a minute, with his
finger in his mouth; and then, as if the
difficult question had oeen solved IN his
mind, he exclaimed:
II know now; Mr.. SMITH"
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Macbeth and the Bible.

You VIII find the principal characters
of s'Macbeth' in the "Book of Kings"
Jezebel in the Bible is Lady Macbeth
in the play. She it was who stirred up
her husband to do all the deyiltry he
did. Then take Hazael, a servant to the
king. Under the influence of his wife,
5Sf8f Is lsGhe b, ssfta & and al aazael is crowned
king. The character exactly suits that
of Macbeth. The minor characters can
also be found in the Bible. OF course,
Shakespeare has altered the words, but
the plot and characters are to be found
there. DR.. Halsey. in his lectures on
Shakespeare at Princeton College. stated
that s~hakspeare's regular practice was
to study the Bible even hours a day
There was not SO many Bibles IN MI
time as there are now, but although very
costly he had ono, and made a daily prac
tice Of studying it. Where DR.. Halse,
got his information | do not know, bu
presume it is correct.
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A. Singing Beach.

At Manchester, Mass, there's dEhasSing-
ing beach" For about n fifth of a
mile the sand will give out a peculiar
sound when stirred by a stick or walked
upon. If a stick is driven into the
sand a sound can be heard for two hun
died feet over the roar of the surf. The
life saving service has made investiga-
tions and found seventy-four such else
where in America and thirteen abroad.
Certain naturalists have been inv "stiga-
ting these resonant patches and report:
"The singing sand may occur in com
paratively small patches in the midst OF
ordinary sand; 1t always occurs between
the limits of low and high tide. The
same sand does not produce sounds at
all seasons, MOI does it always give forth
like sounds; when wet il does not emit
sounds. Samples transported in bags
lose their s]onorousness, but retain it
if transported i'll bottles. The sound is
produced by friction between angular
particlsses. esCseoudidions are d~ryness,
unaofnityo Of gain varying from one-ffth
to one tenth of an inch in diameter, and
freedom from dust"
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Readtna to Peasants u, Russia.

The Russian peasant is very fond OF
reading, that is, of hearing some one
else read. A village teacher may be often
seen in a hut, surrounded by a crowd of
peasants of all ages, reading "Bova
Koroleyitch," or some other story about
the adventures of some hero Or other.
Great care is generally exercised by the
teacher in selecting stories for such pur-
poses. They must be . moral tone,
elevating, and, what is more important,
in popular language. Ishali never forget
the sight of a lively crowd OF peasants
surrounding a village school where one
of the pupils, a young fellow OF IA, was
reading q story about the heroes Of the
last Crimean campaign. Both the little
hero and his hearers were in their glory
and ] am sure many q PEASANTS ambition
was at that moment to see his young
sters possess such knowledge.
Such schools are, however, the excep
| ton. There are parts of Russia where
the population probably never saw
! book in their life. philadelphia Times
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Diet OF Sugar.

Al note appears in the 1potheser
Eeituaa by DR.. Pipson, on sugar as Q
regular article of diet, in which the
writer opposes the general prejudice
against the article. He declares that,
during a period Of forty years, he has
eaten very largely Of i, at least q quarter
Of a pound daily, not including sugar
forming substances taken a the sans
time. During all this period he has not
been under the necessity Of taking
medicine, and has not suffered from any
complaints except brief attacks due e
Irregularities il eating Of in dress. He
declares that the condition OF men
would be much improved II the use
Of sugar should substitute that OF alec
/ hoI
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Medical Properties Of Eggs.

The white of an egg has proved OF
ate to be the most e~fieacious remedy for
burns. Seven or eight successive appll-
cations of this substance soothe pain and
sffsctually excludes the burn from the
air. This simple remedy seems prefera-
ole to eollodion, or even cotton. Ex-
.r~aordinary stories are told Of the healing
properties Of a new oil which il easily
made from the yolk Of hens eggs. The
eggs are first boiled hard, and the yoiks
nc then removed. crushed and placed
ovcr a fire, where they are carefully
stirred until the whole substance is Just
81 the point Of catching fire, when the
iii separates and may be poured of
One yolk will yield nearly two teaspoon
ruls of oil. II is in general use among
The colonists Of South Russia IS
aoans Of curing eass. hFaases and
e sYFsal1nA
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Hydrophobia is unknown in Lapland,
but Pasteur has just shown that dogs
may be inoculated with the disease.
Recent as is the application of elee-
tricity to locomotion, the worlds electric
railways are said to number no less than
eighty.
Geographers say that the former ex-
istence of a continent in the south Pa
cifc ocean is so probable that no man
Of science would be surprised at the
discovery of absolute evidence OF its
having been.
A French horticulturist las found that
the seeds Of the finest varieties of grapes
terminate more quickly than those of the
m sorts, and that seeds fresh
from the fruit g-rminatc better than
those which have been dried.
The total number of stars of which
some knowledge may be obtained by
tle optical appliances now available,
according to Prof. Lockyer, is from
40, 900, 900 to so, 600, 900. Of these only
about 5000 are visible to the naked eye,
equally divided between the two hemis,
pheres.
A catalogue of the birds of Italy has
been prepared for the government by
Prot. Giglioli of Florence. It embraces
443 species. OF these, 207 are classed
as permanent residents, scventy-nine as
summer v~isitants, thirty-s;x as winter
yisitants, nine as of regular passage,
eight as Of irregular passage, twenty
eight as of irregular appearance, eighty
as %stragglers and SIX as doubtful.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's weird concep-
ton of a mirror that can give back the
impressions Of other days, has become
realized in fact. Two members of the
French AGA lemy of Sciences have dis
covered q process for constructing such
mirrors. The full secret has not been
disclosed, but it is understood that the
underlying principle is the peculiar ac-
ton OF light upon the metal selenium
fortified by aid of electricity.
According to the researches of Prof.
F. w. Putnam in his "Arche illogical
Explorations in the Little Miami Valley,
Ohio" there appears to have been in
that section at least two distinct types
of people = first, those whose graves are
the so-called ash pits, and secondly,
those who erect the great mounds over
their chiefs and leaders while those of
lesser rank were buried in trenches
around them. These two types occu-
pied the central portions and were
spreading northward until they were
met and subdued by the modern In
dian tribes which had spread out from
cast to west.
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a Lady cattle breeder.

mrs. Gen. III. e. Meredith is 8 hand
sone woman, who is probably somewhere
& Tie forties. She sets off her hand
ome figure with stylish dresses, and has
biz best apartments that the Grand
Pacific affords. But this woman dele
ute owns III Cambridge City, Ind, the
snest herd Of short-horn cattle there j.
81 tho state, and breeds and sells and
pushes her business alongside Of the
sestsknown cattle fanciers in the coun-
uy. She can discuss constitutional
breeding and high.priced beef with any
naan here. She knows just how ~ AMI
mars frame should be bred, and just how
aat and how round its bones should BE-;
how its ribs should be sprung, how fnc
upper loin should slope and how the
over. she can tell from iss throat-latch
whether she animal has got 4 pedigree
North having, and from the shape " y
W. n Ground tle heart whether Il y
n ii sicki5. There isl't sny among
Be fasnousc cattle owners and breeder
uho know These things aay bette
ii baS HaEe pgEssA ! D
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End oftile crazy Quilt Furor.

The crazy quilt Juror is at an end. and
women whose intellect has been ire
trievably wrecked by its intricacics are
now turning their attention to the kind
Of patchwork known as Noah's ark. The
quilt is of serge cloth, satin sheeting or
plain cream sheeting, or, in fact, any
thing. The Noah's ark is rather above
The centre, and the animals are, of
course, arranged 1.-TWO by two, the ele-
plant and kangaroo" round and round
the entire quilt in such a way as to form
a design. Scraps of fur and embroidery
Of silk and wool, with cross stitch and
outline, or in what is known to art
workers as COUGHING, are all used in the
same piece of work. OF course, much
more ingenuity is required than in the
crazy quilt, without which it would be
a dismal failure. And there is a ques-
ton whether any of these quilts, in
volving such an outlay Of labor, pays
Philadelphia Record.
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The Little BOu'S Gift,

l have a truc story which is we'll worth
the telling. Last Sunday a young
Clergyman from a young congregation
preached, by exchange, to a. congrega-
ton which is n of the serene, old
fashioned, undisturbed sort, where the
rising generations undoubted human
nature is allowed for in a quiet and
sensible way. The visiting clergyman
remained to the Sunday School, and
after the exercises were about half fin
lshed he rose to make q little speech. Il
know that YOU are an cnterprising Sun
day School," he said, ''bccause l see you
Eye so many new books. know that
Ja1rsFevsp5bappy Sunday School, because
Isec so mfh aa IRON Hs o4issa%5 999FGns srSa me.
AND know you aTet and Pacific Daay
School, because thaaSgA tesrfTssse Af' there
by the long pcw.aoor offered me a pea
nut as / came
The attention of the assembly was
instanS directed to the little boy, who
begin to smoker u~ncontrollably to HIM
self. swell, what's the matter, my
little man?' asked the clergyman,
"You're not sorry you offered me tht
peanut, are you2'
did you th-think that vase peanut ]
gglaaHKaea. yaIl2',. astsGd. the~ httl~-
"Why, yes; wasn't liz"
"No-o--ol twas only. a a shell!"-
Boston Post.
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Last PeMat9f.

a mother gave her little boy two
bright, new pennies and asked him what
he was going To do with them. After .
moments thought the child replied:
am going to give d 70 the missionaries
and With the other I am going to buy 9
atick of candy After . while he re-
t,,rued from bis play and told his mother
tbat ID had lost one Of the pennies.
(which did you lose n abe asked. q
lost the missionary penny ne promptly
rapliea. How many grown people ere
nks shat IIttls boy Faaaa RFesess
Hrela
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LADIES, DEPARTMENT.
Advice To wives.

Oh, wives, when your men come to dinner,
Don't greet them lore gained at Ollie. q:
Have compassion on each hungry 81 ner,
Don't o'erwh ,lm them with erudite know
ledge.
Don't shy at them speeches Platonic,
Or flood them with Homeric verse:
Let your speeches be far more ~laconic,
And be fashioned in manner called
'~sterse."
That isn't the time to quote Dickens,
But tits time to attend to the stew:
just tell them you've roasted the chickens
Full as ell as their mothers could do.
-Goodat's Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

DR.. Gross, physician at st. v%incent's Hospi-
tai. Baltimore. Md, considers Red Star Cough
Cure perfectly harm es', being purely vegeEa,
BILE and entirely free from opiates, poisohs'ano
other narcotics, other professionals also en-
dorse it as prompt. safe and sure. Price,twen-
ty.fye cents o b )ttlc.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

Wherever you are located you should wFite
to Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, and receive
free, full information a , ut work that you can
do and live at home, making thereby from s.
to $25 and upwards daily. Soma have made
over $50 in a day. Al is new. Hallett q Co.
will start you. Capita: notneeded. Either sex.
Al ages. Nc class of workingpeople have ever
made money SO fast heretofore. Comfortable
fortunes await every worker. All this seems
your ldIress and it will be cleared up and
proved. Better ao:delay; now is the time.
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ELeDh0mts at Sea.

The hosting into the air and lowering
elephants into The hold OF q ship is no.
only an unusual zight to most men, but
also d strange experience to most ele-
plants. They were lashcd with strong
ropes, slung as far as practicable Il
sings. hoisted up with cranes with
three-fold tackles and lowered into the
steamers hold like bales Of cotton.
When in the hold they were placed in
pens built of strong teak timber balks,
bolted 10 the ship side to prevent them
from breaking loose. The fear the anil
mails suffered was the only pain they I'M
derwent, and BY watching the eyes OF
the poor beasts their terror was very
manifest. Tears trickled down their
faces. and they roared with dread, more
| especially when being lowered into the
hold. the bottom Of which was sanded
for them to stand upon. We are told
that one timid female elephant actually
tainted and was brought to with . tau
and many gallons OF water. A. sea !
annears that the animals got into Q curi
o,,s habit Of occasionally--evidently ct
-preconcsrted signal-setting to Wor
rocking the ship from side g J q
Giving themselves simultaneously
SWINGING motion as they stood atnWar
tl,e shin. the vessel rolling heavily, e
i. ! seaway.-Koath's Companion.
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The Only Way to Conquer Dyspepsia.

WY GW OUHNuGE UyBpSVSIWs
1t is perfectly preposterous to introduce pep
sin and other artificial solvents into the stom-
och, in the expectation that they will assist
digestion by acting on the food itself. They
will not. Nor is it possible thus to overcome
dyspepsia. The only way to conquer that dis
order, and prevent the numerous diseases and
disabilities which it assuredly provokes. is TO
renew the activity of gastric action by
strengthening the stomach. Hostetter's stom-
ach Bltters eradicates the most inveterats
forms of Indigestion by restoring vitality to
the aIimentafy organs, and those which are
tributary to them. The liver, the bowels, the
kidneys and the nerves. no less than the stom-
ach, experience the invigorative effects of that
S anlard tonic, which possesses Alternative
p.or critics that greatly enhance its beneficial
influence, and give a permanence to its effects
which they would not otherwise possess.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

MAY not an appropriate use Of the Christmas
festival be made by the establishment Of the
custom Of deyoting it to acts edn rseiproc al
re- 81 ali hands be filed with tokens of
friendship, and let the gift of affection be
freely circulated.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

We ought not to be too anxious to encourage
untried i noyat!on- in cases of doubtful i'm
provemcnt. For a quarter OF a century Or.
Sage's CatHrh Re1 edy has been before the
public and pissed through the ~seyerest test,
ard is pronounced the most reliable remedy
for that disagreeable malady. Thousands OF
testimon: ais OF fits virtues. JOcents per bottle
By druggists,
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

Ifyou have numbness in arms and limbs, heart
skips beats, thumps or %tutters, or you are
nervous and irrittble-in danger Of shock
DIR. Kilmer's OCEAN-WEED regulates, relieves,
~corrects and cures.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

The magical effects of st. Jacobs Oh In re-
moving soreness and stiffness makes it 1nvai-
uab Q at all timos. Rheumatism and Neural
gia promptly yield to it.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
The Useful Hairpil1,

Women arc in the habit of making
sundry complaint over the inequality
between their own and masculine attire
in the matter of pockets; for, while they
have to search and tumble with difficulty
for the one single receptacle for purse
and handkerchief allowed them, a man
has more than a dozen handy, convent
ent, fat pockets arranged about his
clothes where they will do the most
good. But fate loves to equaliza mat
tiers do we ever think how the bal
ance struck, and by the small but mighty
hairpin? Man has nothing in his pockets
that can in any way compete with its
uses. This little instrument holds a
woman's own hair and her false hair in
place; IT answers for a crimping-pin if
no better offers; it cleans nails on occa-
zion, and has been known to perform
other toilet offices; it fills the duties OF
! gloye-buttoner with constancy and of
! boot-buttoner with frequency; it cuts
The leaves Of books and periodicals; it
gardens; it clears out corners in clean
Ing paint; it pins shawls and heavy
wraps when need is, being in fact a uni
ycrsal fastener; it is, moreover, an in
strument of offense and defense at will;
and, more than all the rest, inserted in
the key hole of the locked door and
twisted about the key at night, it defes
The stoutest burguiar.
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nrs Pferce's aFavorits Prescription" is the
hest res orative onic for physical IraaaIy IN
,ro,oen or female weaknessss or deranges
yaents. Ry druggists. Price reduced TO one
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

The seasons over" said Togg, as he cap
sized the pepper-bcx.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
brides in washington Hotels.


So great has become the rivalry be-
tween three or four of the leading Wash
ington hotels In the solicitation for bri-
aal couples that the most successful of
the landlords in this effort presents each
one of the brides who stop at his hos
telry . beautiful bouquet or basket of
cut flowers. The clerk who receives the
couple inquiries of the bridegroom if he
suspects o recent marriage-and it is sell
dom that a mistake is made--and then
the flowers 60 up to the apartments en-
gagged.
One Of the most lucrative classes for
The landlords at the capital is the newly
married. Beginning with October and
snding with April, it is estimated that
there are in the city an average all the
lime Of two hundred pairs Of brides and
yrooms. Mr.. Burch, the manager of the
Ebbitt, where the flowers ere given, and
he hotel which entertains most Of
Them, says he freqlseaAly Uva
pies, and averages over twenty-five dur
ing the busy season. They are, he says.
the most desirable class of guests. Al
ways pleasant, they want the best OF ev-
srything, and are given it. This hos
terry makes a feature of pleasing these
people, and all embarrassments are
Eessened to the minimum. Guests there
ire 50 used to seeing large numbers Of
brides and grooms that they are spared
lie stares so customary where this class
i rare.
Il IS said to be the purpose OF the
great hotel company organizing here,
md which intends to build q structure
u cost Of 81, 500, 900, to arrange one
floor with bridal apartments. Washing
Ton Is becoming more and more q favor
IL place on the wedding tour. Every
thing IS cheerful, there are enough sights
10 occupy the time for months, and theT
the presence Of so many of the new
partners lends a kind of solace found a
no other place. - Washington Letter.
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Walk as if you were conscious that YOU
body has a soul in it.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29

If a cough disturbs your sleep, a k Piso's
Cure for Consumption and rest well.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-29
A Deem Mystery.

A turn-stylc-The fashion of wearing cuffs
among impecuniOus dudes.
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uco,,.r,,v,ton Can be Cured.'

DR.. ]. S. CONES, Owensyille. Ohio, says: -
haye given SCOTS EMULSION OF Cod Live
Oil with Hypophosphites 10 four patients WI !
bettcr results than seemed possible with an!
.emasv All wee hereditary cases of lint
diseass and advanced to that sta,e whei
Con rs. pain in the chest, frequent oreatning
freouent pulse. fevcr and EmaclaGloh. a. a.
these cases have increased IN MeisnnIIiiaaSSia,na !
2Slbs.. and are not now neeolns any lnooeaA''
THE definition of dude in Webster's new
edition will be simply o."